“There was a rich man who dressed in purple garments and fine linen and dined sumptuously each day. And lying at his door was a poor man named Lazarus covered in sores, who would gladly have eaten his ...
In today’s first reading, we are introduced to one of the great characters of the Old Testament, a layman called Amos, farmer turned prophet. Amos came from a small village in the hill country of ...
Answer: The world of the Old Testament included many good people of faith, but their lives were often ruled by tyranny, wars, injustice, sin and unfaithfulness. The Old Testament records God speaking ...
“Reality, Grief, Hope: Three Urgent Prophetic Tasks” by Walter Brueggemann (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 165 pages, $15) When comparing the ideology of Israel at the time of the destruction of the ...
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